DGM of Woodland Retail shot dead

Nitin Sharma, Deputy General Manager of the company, was sprayed with a hail of bullets by two youths in their 20s riding a motorcycle in front of his house at Shaktikhand-4 at around 8 am, City SP Shivshankar Yadav said.

Station House Officer of Indirapuram police Gorakh Nath Sharma said Nitin Sharma was returning from Cambridge School after dropping his 10-year-old daughter.

"When he got out of his car and reached near the gate of his house, he was shot at", Yadav said adding 10 bullets were pumped into the body of Sharma--two in the head and the rest in the chest.

The SHO said the assailants fled from the spot by scaring away a private security guard of a neighbouring house who tried to stop them.

One bullet also hit a Grand Vetra car parked just outside the house, the SHO said.

Sharma was taken to a nearby hospital where doctors declared him brought dead, the two police officials said.

Initial inquiry showed that some time ago Sharma had sacked two youths in his company on the charge of dereliction of duty, the SP said.

Police did not rule out the possibility of their involvement in Sharma's killing. (more)